How Did the Plague Affect the Experience of Talberth?

Gossips derives from the same root as coherent, interesting enough. It was sort of god's helper. So you were there to support a woman through labour. But then it has the unfortunate connotation that all these women knocked in a room,. what were they talking about all day? And it could could be quite a bardy environment, you know, lots of rude jokes going round. That's where we get the idea of em gossiping - which comes from worries about what women might have been talking about. Your book is about a midwife working during the great plague of 16 65. How did the plague t the experience of talberth?